... yet another example of what “Frontline” does best: unravel complicated stories in ways we can understand ... a taut hour of superior investigative reporting ... as discomforting as it is enlightening ...

... Do yourself a favor, sit down and watch tonight as correspondent and producer Martin Smith takes viewers into the deepest and most lucid explanations delivered anywhere in the media as to how Bernard L. Madoff bilked so many out of an estimated $65 billion. ...

... the real service here simply involves meticulously laying out the magnitude, structure and collateral damage of Madoff’s crimes. ...

... Madoff faces sentencing in June, and in that respect, “The Madoff Affair” qualifies as a rare foray by “Frontline” into feel-good TV. Because after watching this, it will be hard not to crack a great big smile when they finally throw the book at him.